Near-field fluorescence imaging of single molecules with a resolution in the range of 10 nm

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 362-364

  Hosaka, N ^a   Saiki, T ^b  

^a KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aperture probe; Energy transfer; Illumination collection mode; Near field scanning optical microscopy; Single molecule fluorescence; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOLECULES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PROBES;

APERTURE PROBES; COLLECTION MODES; ENERGY-TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; ILLUMINATION-COLLECTION MODE; NEAR-FIELD FLUORESCENCE; NEARFIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0035056331     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.2001.00815.x     Document Type: Article

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